Originally Posted by
Drc40
IMHO I can no longer see a long term path for sustained MAX production. The sooner they start a clean sheet with modern systems while getting a limping MAX back in the air is their best, and maybe only, option. The MAX can not survive as the malfeasance continues to emerge on an almost daily basis.
The clean sheet modern design will be designed and built by the
Embraer Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, which will arise from the ashes of the old Boeing after the old company goes into Chapter 11 under the weight of billions of dollars in product liability claims.
By the time this Phoenix-rising happens, the Space, Defense and Services divisions, together with the widebody products and production facilities at Everett & Charleston, will have already been split off and either sold as going concerns or merged into existing industry players.
Under Chapter 11, the old company will shrug and walk away from the B737 and also from all its nasty expensive pension obligations,ensuring that the pain is felt at least as much by its former workforce as by banks and shareholders. A few fairly senior executives will serve as sacrificial goats and may even spend a few years in low-security Federal prisons. The very top guys will of course be thrown theatrically out of 13th-floor windows, and will then float gently down very happily supported by their golden parachutes.
The people who will make a lot of money out of it will be the lawyers, Airbus shareholders, and of course the very top guys from the old Boeing.
Pretty much everyone else will lose their shirts.
Too dystopian you say?
I'm afraid not